Not too long ago my friend Anne e-mailed me this eco-font. Ok so it’s not the prettiest looking font when it’s all blown up like that. But when it is a normal point size you can’t even tell there are little swiss-cheese holes in every letter. The site claims to reduce the amount of ink used by 20% ! Pretty cool, I think. So if you really have to print out something you might want to consider this font.  I am desperately trying not to print out anything, ever. It’s not only a waste but the paper collects by the stacks in my house. If I let paper in it never seems to leave…. curious phenomena, I think it’s called “pack rat”. Apologies for the mini tangent!

On Not-cot I saw this post where Matt Robinson took it upon himself to see just how much ink (from a ballpoint pen) different mainstream type faces would use. It’s not exactly a scientific way of measuring how much ink is used since he could fill in the lines of one font more than the other (sorry, I’m a bit of a stickler for the scientific method). But I think it’s a really great way of making someone aware that something as simple as changing the font before you print out a letter could, in the long run, will save money and resources.

(Image from: mattewrobinson.co.uk )